max_pooper:Isitoveryet: Jedekai: I'd be all for a Libertarian (which I am. Mostly.) News Channel...

...but it'd just feature four people staring, mouths agape at what The Fine And Upstanding Among Us (Whom We Put In Office) falls out of their mouths.

Then they'd slam their heads against their desks until unconscious.

but there's no T.V. in Libertarian paradise, i don't think... who finances that?

In Libertarian paradise TV and radio are pretty much useless since there is no governmental agency to regulate frequencies.

No no, it would be "useful" in that you could tune in to 300 channels of 24/7 commercials for Monsanto, all broadcast from a trillion-watt transmitter that drowned everything else out and gave people cancer. The government would totally step in to settle the lawsuit between you and their army of bloodthirsty vampire lawyers and hired thugs! Minarchism!

Bacon, why did you go and tell him Mitt lost? Mark12a was gearing up to go Mitt's inauguration, he gets his news from Fox and those polls told him it was a slam-dunk so he never bothered to follow up and find out who really won.

Also, isn't it hilarious and ironic that only Republicans keep equating Obama to God, Jesus, Muhammad, and every other deity they can think of, and then scream that Democrats are the ones doing it?

Most people I talk to that voted for Obama, and the people I see here, realize that Obama isn't perfect, and there's usually at least one policy decision that pisses them off.

I have yet to hear a single conservative highlight how Romney was a better candidate on any issue whatsoever. I hear them doing a lot of whining, as usual. The new line seems to be "Obama said or did [X]. Own it, liberals."

Meh. I'm not expecting insightful political discourse from these idiots, but does every half-formed thought and insult have to be uttered?

Kittypie070:toraque: This is actually not very surprising, considering what happened to me last week. I was out shopping for bath towels when a campaign fundraiser guy started demanding I contribute to getting Romney elected, only the election was already over and Obama won. Don't you know it's over, I said, but he kept growling and tugging at my bath towels and hissing at me. Let it go, man, I said, but I think people all around me misunderstood because people were screaming and stampeding and pointing at him, and then Animal Control showed up because apparently he wasn't a republican, he was a rabid wolverine that had somehow gotten 'Romney 2012' stickers all over him and the next thing I know I'm in the hospital with shredded bath towels and needles sticking in me everywhere. It wasn't much fun.

halfof33:At the $500 donor level, you were placed on certain campaign distribution lists that included information not generally disclosed to the general public, which a media organization could monitor to determine if there was anything newsworthy.

I myself have used this same tactic in local elections, and would forward the Dear Valued Doner e-mails to my guy's campaign.

Of course I did not give $500 bucks.

If Fox game him the money to make the contribution, or told him to make the contribution, they're committing a federal crime. Interesting suggestion.

The only time I ever see 24-hour news channels is at the gym. I looked at the TV twice there this morning and the first time I saw a story about a monkey taking a sh*t in an Ikea parking lot and the second time I saw a video of a fat Korean guy smashing a miniature tank with a golf club.

There is no question whatsoever that cable news is worse than cartoons and video games. It's arguably worse than the Black Plague.

mark12A:It is without question that Fox News is rightwing. And the entire rest of the media is in the tank for the Democrats.

Since you watch Fox News so religiously, every other media outlet appears biased to you. It's an "afterbias" that only appears to Fox News viewers. They've spent so much time viewing the heavy Fox News bias that the rest of the world seems biased to them.

A similar thing happens if you stare too long at the color yellow. When you look away, the world appears blue. It's not that the world is actually blue, but just that you've spent too much time staring at yellow.

Try turning off Fox News for a couple of weeks and see if that changes your perspective.

Corvus:So then it's a very different matter than this, isn't it? Saying you voted for someone and being someone who donated $500 shows a very different level of support.

Yes, I'm sure his donation was terrible evil and we should all whip ourselves into a frothy righteous rage, and all. Sure. But I'm still not seeing how that changes the fact that a lot of liberals are braindead partisan fungi, though.

OF COURSE that's why Mitt lost! Do you think if the Media downplayed everything Obama did and played up everything Romney did that the country would have voted for Obama? He would have been shown a public ass on TV while Mitt would be decorated in gold and raised up under the song of angels, damned with the devil while Romney was elevated as the Holy Messiah in public theater. The voters would have fled from Obama and run to Romney.

We could have done the same for Gary Johnson or Ron Paul, made him win by a landslide.

This doesn't surprise me. Aside from their graphics department, these people are pretty smart and don't believe one iota of the dog shiat that comes out of their mouths. Do you think they watch Fox News when they get home from work? These people are watching BBC, listening to NPR or reading the New York Times. Honestly, what's more likely? That all of these people, many of whom have Ivy League educations, are retarded? Or that they are just evil greedy sellouts?

ThrobblefootSpectre:Corvus: So then it's a very different matter than this, isn't it? Saying you voted for someone and being someone who donated $500 shows a very different level of support.

Yes, I'm sure his donation was terrible evil and we should all whip ourselves into a frothy righteous rage, and all. Sure. But I'm still not seeing how that changes the fact that a lot of liberals are braindead partisan fungi, though.

I never said his donation was evil. You seem easily confused.

Did he say "a lot of liberals" I thought he was saying all liberals. You are a stupid zombie right? You agree with him, so why would anyone listen to you?

mark12A:Whoop-di-freakin'-do. The rest of the MSM are overwhelmingly Democratic and give their contributions to the Democratic party, as well as suppress stories unfavorable to their Obamessiah.

It is without question that Fox News is rightwing. And the entire rest of the media is in the tank for the Democrats. The fact that Fox News is dissident news drives the MSM batty. They *thought* they had total control of the media spin until Fox news showed up.

unexplained bacon: A Dark Evil Omen: unexplained bacon: doubled99: So even though he supported Obama, he still can't criticize him or democrats in general?

Makes sense.

Hey, Libs and Cons, keep having your little pissing contest together while you both fark the whole country!

I love it when 'above it all' farkers show up to chastise the finger pointing and acrimony on the politics tab by acrimoniously pointing fingers.

And so often - so very often - the "above it all"-ness reduces to BSABSVR.

so very very often

I wonder why that is...seriously, why would that be?

couple theories:

-the 'above it alls' are actually just a variation of a fark independent (an embarrassed republican)

I would agree given that "Junior" tends to be on the Conservative side in just about every thread he pops up in. And I call him Junior because he comes of as one of those dumbass kids who act like they know everything but as soon as they reply, they show that they never know what they're talking about.

hbk72777:Researcher: The average radio listener listens for eighteen minutes. The average Howard Stern fan listens for - are you ready for this? - an hour and twenty minutes.Pig Vomit: How can that be?Researcher: Answer most commonly given? "I want to see what he'll say next."Pig Vomit: Okay, fine. But what about the people who hate Stern?Researcher: Good point. The average Stern hater listens for two and a half hours a day.Pig Vomit: But... if they hate him, why do they listen?Researcher: Most common answer? "I want to see what he'll say next."

Now I know why FOX has the ratings it does

Pig Vomit: You know what you are FOX? You know what you are? You're the Antichrist.FOX: What?!Pig Vomit: That's what you are. You are the motherfarking Antichrist!

factoryconnection:The "name" line is bothering me. It is in a larger font and also not listed IAW the form instructions (last, first, middle). It just looks altered. This seems to be a strange thing to fake, because what Fox personality didn't roast Obama supporters... why him? But it looks funny.

It's not altered. You can search for the filed form yourself here and find it.

An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in "The Hobbit"; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins's sword was called Sting.)

Jedekai: I'd be all for a Libertarian (which I am. Mostly.) News Channel...

...but it'd just feature four people staring, mouths agape at what The Fine And Upstanding Among Us (Whom We Put In Office) falls out of their mouths.

Then they'd slam their heads against their desks until unconscious.

but there's no T.V. in Libertarian paradise, i don't think... who finances that?

Few things here are more amusing than people mocking others for thinking.

"Ooooh, you think all different and shiat. Got some "new ideas" about how do get stuff, done, eh?.Things have always been this way, and they're always gonna be this way. What's your fancy ass "third party " gonna do?!?" Dumbasses!"

/btw-how does Liberal Paradise and Conservative Paradise work? Figured they'd be a little closer by now what with all the time in charge.

OF COURSE that's why Mitt lost! Do you think if the Media downplayed everything Obama did and played up everything Romney did that the country would have voted for Obama? He would have been shown a public ass on TV while Mitt would be decorated in gold and raised up under the song of angels, damned with the devil while Romney was elevated as the Holy Messiah in public theater. The voters would have fled from Obama and run to Romney.

We could have done the same for Gary Johnson or Ron Paul, made him win by a landslide.